Glossary of Climate Change - T

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• Thermohaline circulation - the global density-driven circulation of the oceans.
• TEX-86 - a paleothermometer based on the composition of membrane lipids of the marine picoplankton Crenarchaeota.
• Thermocline - (sometimes metalimnion) is a layer within a body of water or air where the temperature changes rapidly with depth.
• Tipping point (climatology) - the point at which change due to human activity brings about sufficient new processes in nature to make any human reversal of the change impossible.
• The Real Global Warming Disaster - a 2009 book by Christopher Booker that examines skeptically the subject of man made global warming.